Art Quote by John Philip Sousa

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

— Ry Cooder

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with…

— Plato

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor…

— Robert Shaw

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

— David Byrne

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to…

— David Byrne

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

— Wim Wenders

Fetishized as a commodity, music is illustrative of the evolution of our entire society: deritualize a social form, repress an activity of the body,…

— Jacques Attali

I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.

— Adnan Sami

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry.…

— Jane Siberry

“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and…

— Charles Frazier